VERGE Conference — October 29, 2025 — CleanCounts, North America’s largest and most innovative nonprofit clean energy registry, has been selected as an awardee of LevelTen Energy’s Registry Acceleration Fund (RAF). The RAF supports registries worldwide to accelerate their progress towards credible carbon-free energy tracking — critical to achieving granular clean power procurement and delivery of clean power to advance state and corporate decarbonization goals.

CleanCounts was one of five organizations globally selected across two rounds of RAF funding from LevelTen and the GC Trading Alliance. The recognition builds on CleanCounts’ long-standing leadership in hourly energy tracking and registry innovation, including the first-of-its-kind hourly certificate retirement conducted with Google in 2021.

The RAF funding will enable CleanCounts to expand its data infrastructure and implement EnergyTag standards across generators in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region. The goal: to empower utilities, corporations, and regulators with the data transparency needed for granular energy procurements, 45V clean hydrogen eligibility, and advanced sustainability reporting.

“After our first-of-a-kind hourly certificate retirement with Google, we’ve continued pushing for more transparent and trusted energy attribute systems,” said Benjamin Gerber, CEO of CleanCounts. “LevelTen’s RAF funding will help us accelerate the development of market tools that enable the grid’s decarbonization and support credible sustainability reporting in a rapidly evolving policy landscape.”

Context: New Momentum for Scope 2 and Granular Emissions Accounting

The progress comes during a pivotal time for carbon accounting standards. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the world’s most widely used emissions reporting framework, has opened two major public consultations—one for updating Scope 2 inventory guidance and another for a new consequential electricity emissions metric.

These consultations, open through December 19, mark the Protocol’s most significant updates in nearly a decade and signal growing institutional momentum toward hourly and location-based emissions transparency—an area CleanCounts’ infrastructure directly supports.

Supporting Market Integrity and Customer Confidence

CleanCounts’ registry manages more than 40% of North America’s Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), covering generators in 48 U.S. states and multiple Canadian provinces. With advanced APIs, CleanCounts integrates seamlessly with third-party marketplaces to prevent double counting and enhance trust in voluntary and compliance REC markets and use of other Environmental Attribute Certificates.

“Being responsive to the needs of customers, regulators and stakeholders is priority number one. With a strong governance structure and proven in-house financial and technical expertise, we will apply these funds to market solutions that address customer challenges. Though we’re starting with MISO, it’s exciting to see that several states have clean energy or climate goals that call for extensive use of green hydrogen—which requires a registry that supports hourly matched EACs. We look forward to sharing our progress at VERGE 2025, where CleanCounts will engage with leading decarbonization, registry and sustainability professionals to drive real-world traction for these innovations.”

CleanCounts’ nonprofit mission drives its customer-centric approach. Over the past three years, its support team has achieved: 

• median customer inquiry response time under 3.5 hours,
• median full resolution time of less than 16 hours and 
• resolved 73% of cases in a single interaction.